Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 17. The Hungary of Trianon from the Election of the Regent to the Last Year of Peace (1920-1938). László Baják

Standard of the National Scouts Association, 1920s Hunyadi, Mihály Szilágyi, Lajos Kossuth and Miklós Horthy appeared in the presidential great hall of the parliament building. In 1930 therefore there were in turn the conservative respect of authority so characteristic of a later date, mass demonstrations symbolising national unity and references to history. The other important manifestation of the years 1930 and 1931 was the series of events of what was announced as "The Year of St. Emeric", on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the death of St. Emeric, Prince of Hungary, which apart from its historic significance emphasized the importance of the Catholic Church. Neither was the 1933 Boy Scouts Jamboree in Gödöllő merely the gathering of an international youth organisation, but a prominent state event. The boy-scout movement, which transplanted to Hungary middle-class Anglo-Saxon values and principles of upbringing, was also found suitable for the implementation of a patriotic and religious education. The right to hold the 4

th World Jamboree served as recognition that in Hungary the boy-scout movement had spread with intensity and been successful in its activities in the 1920s. The Hungarian political world saw a great propagandistic opportunity in supporting the event, which Miklós Horthy himself honoured with his interest on more than one occasion. On July 27, 1933, after the opening religious services in the Basilica, the Kálvin Square Calvinist Church and the Deák Square Evangelist Church, Horthy and the organisation's founder General Lord Baden Powell together